Catherine Rockwood

The Sacrificials When the sacrificials come through, the entire city shuts down, fireworks filling the night sky and music booming out from hastily set-up stages. The atmosphere is ecstatic, the way the tongue glor…

My body horror story "The Sacrificials" about trying to escape a communal accepted sacrifice party is live on Flash Fiction Online! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

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My favs are Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It. The actual "best" are probably Hamlet and Macbeth, but I really love it when my goofy little guys are ruining around being silly and doing gender at each other.

The traveller scrabbles for purchase.

"My Neighbor Uses Poison"by Catherine Rockwood My neighbor uses poisonto kill rats. Sometimes foxesindirectly.  He makes a pointof saying he remembers me.Maybe not point. Maybe he can’thelp it. Some recognitions need to be uttered. Or be…

"Some recognitions need

to be uttered. Or be recognized

as need. " @martin65.bsky.social

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From the new winter/spring issue of TBKR

Elizabeth Sylvia holding a copy of Scythe

Elizabeth Sylvia is signing copies of Scythe at our table now! 11-12

Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds YouGov poll shows 50% support as Kristi Noem defends ‘terrorist’ claim and shutdown drags on

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.

Millie Tullis AWP Book Signing. Find me with my friends at River River Books! Saturday, March 7 11 am-12 pm (T-756)

AWP folks! You find me signing books with my friends at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social this Saturday! Stop by the bookfair from 11 am-12 pm to grab a copy or just say hi!

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

AWP folks new to the area: if you're going to Red Emma's, it's customary to mask. :-*

Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald join Dan Hartland to discuss style.

🚨 SOUND THE PODCAST KLAXON!

A new episode of Critical Friends has just arrived, fresh-faced, in your feeds. Paul Kincaid and @yukondawn.bsky.social talk to me about style: what is it, what place has it taken up in SFF, and why is it so fraught?

Come for Le Guin and Vonnegut, stay for police raids.

Somewhere out there an r/atheism mod has been regretfully vindicated

The economic structures that produce the ultra rich are the same that produce ecological collapse, climate change, international conflict, and human exploitation. In fact the wealthy cannot become wealthy without these effects. Global capitalism and imperialism rob the many to enrich the few.

As they should

If this swing holds in the November elections, Republicans may lose a Senate seat, several gerrymandered House seats, with the governorship suddenly in play. Even if it doesn’t happen, Rs will have to pump a ton of resources into the state just to hold it.

Photo shows ice-sheathed small branches, against a blurred background of sky.

Well good morning Boston.

First carve of the month: a harpy!

#art #linocut #illustration

Road shut down due to gas leak in downtown Boston near Mass. General Hospital entrance A gas leak in downtown Boston on Tuesday morning is leading to traffic delays in the city. Boston police said in a social media post around 9:30 a.m. that they have shut down North Grove Street by Cambridge Street due to a gas leak. They said the street closure will impact traffic going to the main entrance and the emergency…

TRAFFIC ALERT: Gas leak in downtown Boston causes street closure in the area of Mass. General Hospital main entrance and emergency room. Motorists urged to seek alternate routes. on.nbcboston.com/nYYfp6L

Madelaine Caritas Longman: How a Poem Begins How does a poem begin?       Poetry comes to me often—while walking, while cleaning, while riding the metro, while having a coffee, ...

newly posted: Madelaine Caritas Longman: How a Poem Begins
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N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

rezoning waits for nopoet.

ahahaha I am (gods willing) going to be at AWP on Thursday but guess where I will be instead of at a fascinating reading on Thursday night: that's right, attending my town meeting via Zoom.

As someone from hurricane country, I've survived no few hurricanes and too many carpetbaggers in their aftermaths. This piece is wonderfully and frustratingly accurate. I hope "the main character has a punchable face" comes across as the high compliment I intend it to be.

AWP Reading Fractured Lit/ A Reason to Write offsite reading Thursday March 5, 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the Pratt Library, 1303 Orleans St, there will be refreshments and door prizes

Hex offsite Friday 3/6 6:30 PM at Current Space, 421 N. Howard

where I’ll be at AWP! either at the @reckoningmag.bsky.social booth (T714) or these cool offsite readings

Events for Jane Zwart and Haley Hodges at AWP. JANE: off-site reading, Friday at 7pm, Max's Taphouse, 737 S. Broadway. "Poet of the Hour," Saturday at 2pm, Only Poems, booth 446 HALEY: signing, Thursday 2 to 4, Whitworth University, booth 515 "One Poet, One Poem" reading and open mic, Vino, 1636 Thames St

Hey writing kin, if you're going to be in Baltimore, I'd love to say hello. I'm also up for signing books if you're into that kind of thing. But mostly I'd love to say hello.

Anti-Fascist Love Poem JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE Reading MICHAEL TODD COHEN CARLA SOFIA FERREIRA DOMINIQUE AHKONG HAN VANDERHART JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA RITA MOOKERJEE AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON K. IVER Off Site Baltimore Saturday, March 7|79pm Fells Point 1640 Thames Street (use entrance to: 1636)

Hey friends—join us in Baltimore for some fire, anti-fascist love poems! Saturday night, 7pm.

ESSENTIAL READING FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE

That’s a whole geologic era guys. @stelliform.press do you think we should do a really-really-hardcover edition, I’m thinking granite probably?

Thank you @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social 💚🌻🌿

My art, digital. Realism horse armour and inked horse skull

Horse armour study - 2026